>> THIS WAS THE VIEW A LITTLE
LESS THAN THREE HOURS AGO AS
FRANK RUBIO, SERGEY PROKOPYEV
AND DMITRI PETELIN GATHERED AT
THE SOYUZ MS-23 SPACECRAFT AND
FLOATED INSIDE TO BEGIN THE
PROCESS OF PREPARING FOR AN
UNDOCKING THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION JUST 22 MINUTES
FROM NOW TO BEGIN THE JOURNEY
HOME AND COMPLETE THE 371-DAY
157MILLION-MILE MISSION.
WELCOME YOU HERE IN MISSION
CONTROL IN HOUSTON AND THE
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER.
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM, YOU CAN SEE
THE REPLAY THAT OCCURRED AT
11:41P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
12:41A.M. EASTERN TIME AS THE
PRICHAL MODULE, IS THE DOCKING
PORT FOR THE MS-23 SPACECRAFT
WAS FIRST CLOSED FOLLOWED JUST A
MINUTE OR TWO LATER BY THE
CLOSING OF THE HATCH OF THE
SOYUZ MS-23 SPACECRAFT.
THE THREE DEPARTING CREWMEMBERS
RUBIO PROKOPYEV AND PETELIN ARE
SUITED UP IN THE LAUNCH AND
ENTRY SUITS.
THEY HAVE COMPLETED LEAK CHECK
ON THE SUIT AND LEAK CHECKS OF
THE HATCHWAY AND THE VESTIBULE
BETWEEN THE SOYUZ SPACECRAFT AND
THE PRICHAL MODULE THAT DEMATED
TO THE TOP OF THE MLM, THE
MULTIPURPOSE LABORATORY MODULE,
THE NAUKA MODULE ON THE SPACE
FACING SIDE, ON THE EARTH-FACING
SIDE OF THE RUSSIAN SEGMENT OF
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
ONCE THE CREWMEMBERS WERE
ONBOARD, THEY BEGAN
COMMUNICATION CHECKS AND SYSTEM
CHECKS WITH THE FLIGHT
CONTROLLERS AT THE RUSSIAN
MISSION CONTROL CENTER IN
KOROLYOV OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW.
YOU ARE LOOKING RIGHT NOW AT THE
SCENE HERE IN THE SPACE STATION
FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM HERE AT THE
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER IN HOUSTON
ON CONSOLE AT THIS HOUR IS
FLIGHT DIRECTOR CHRIS DOBBINS,
THERE IS ACTUALLY A LOSS OF
SIGNAL AND A BRIEF GAP TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
RIGHT NOW.
WE'LL PICK UP COMMUNICATIONS A
FEW MINUTES FROM NOW THROUGH OUR
TRACKING AND DATA RELAY
SATELLITE SYSTEM.
ALL OF THE UNDOCKING
PREPARATIONS HAVE GONE
PERFECTLY.
THE HOOKS ON THE ISS SIDE OF THE
DOCKING INTERFACE WITH THE SOYUZ
SPACECRAFT THEY WERE OPENED A
COUPLE OF HOURS AGO, AND SOYUZ
LEAK CHECKS, AS I MENTIONED,
WERE COMPLETED A SHORT TIME AGO,
SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE
UNDOCKING COMMAND, THAT WILL
INITIATE THE OPENING OF THE
HOOKS ON THE SOYUZ SIDE OVER THE
DOCKING INTERFACE.
THE HOOKS WILL BEGIN TO OPEN AT
2:53A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
3:53A.M. EASTERN TIME AND TAKE
90 SECONDS OR THE HOOKS TO
PHYSICALLY OPEN AFTER SPRINGS ON
BOTH SIDES OF THE DOCKING
INTERFACE WILL PUSH OFF AGAINST
ONE ANOTHER ALLOWING THE ACTUAL
UNDOCKING ITSELF OF THE SOYUZ
SPACECRAFT.
THE UNDOCKING WILL PUSH AWAY
SOYUZ AT A RATE OF ABOUT 12
TENTHS OF A METER PER SECOND AND
RATE WILL BE INCREASED THROUGH
TWO SEPARATION BURNS OF THE
SOYUZ THRUSTERS THAT WILL OCCUR
WITHIN MINUTES AFTER THE UNDOCK
ITSELF IN THE UNDOCKING
SCHEDULED AT 2:54:30.
3:54:30 EASTERN TIME.
THE TWO SEPARATION BURNS
MONITORED BY THE RUSSIAN FLIGHT
CONTROLLERS THE RUSSIAN MISSION
CONTROL CENTER OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW
IN THE TOWN OF KOROLYOV WILL BE
FOLLOWED BY THE DEORBIT BURN.
THE DEORBIT BURN WILL TAKE PLACE
AT 5:24:09 CENTRAL TIME.
A 4:39 RETROGRADE FIRING A
BREAKING MANEUVER IF YOU WILL TO
SLOW THE SOYUZ DOWN BY
1:28METERS PER SECOND ALLOWING
IT TO DROP OUT OF ORBIT TO BEGIN
THE 54 MINUTE DECENT THROUGH THE
ATMOSPHERE AND TOWARD THE
LANDING SITE OF SOUTH CENTRAL
KAZAKHSTAN.
ONCE THE DEORBIT BURN IS
COMPLETE, ABOUT 23 MINUTES
LATER.
THERE WILL BE A PYROTECHNIC
FIRING OF THE SEPARATION OF THE
THREE SECTIONS OF THE SOYUZ
SPACECRAFT, THE MODULE
SEPARATION, OCCURRING AT 5:51
58:00A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
6:51:58A.M. EASTERN TIME.
THE MODULES WILL BE SEPARATED.
THE ORBITAL MODULE WHICH IS THE
TOP SECTION OF THE SOYUZ, THE
DESCENT MODULE WHERE THE CREW IS
STRAPPED INTO THE SEATS AT THIS
HOUR AND CENTER SECTION AND THE
LOWER SECTION WHICH IS THE
INSTRUMENTATION OF PROPULSION
MODULE.
THE ONLY SECTION THAT SURVIVES
THE HEAT OF RE-ENTRY OF COURSE
IS THE DECENT MODULE WITH THE
CREW STRAPPED ONBOARD AND SERGEY
PROKOPYEV, THE SOYUZ COMMANDER
IN THE CENTER SEAT FLANKED TO
HIS LEFT AND TO HIS RIGHT BY
NASAS' FRANK RUBIO THE RECORD
HOLDER OR THE LONGEST SINGLE
SPACEFLIGHT IN AMERICAN HISTORY
AT 371 DAYS ECLIPSING THE FORMER
MARK OF 355 DAYS PREVIOUSLY HELD
BY MARK VANDE HEI.
FOLLOWING THE SEPARATION OF THE
MODULES ABOUT THREE MINUTES
LATER, THE DECENT MODULE WILL
REACH THE POINT OF ENTRY
INTERFACE AT THE ALTITUDE OF
62MILES THAT WILL BE THE FIRST
TRACEABLE SENSES OF GRAVITY
PULLING AT THE, AT THE CREW
MEMBER'S BODIES FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN 371 DAYS.
ENTRY INTERFACE WILL OCCUR AT
THE ALTITUDE, AGAIN, WITHOUT
400,000 FEET.
62MILES ABOVE THE EARTH AND
FOLLOWED JUST TWO MINUTES LATER
BY THE ENTRY OF THE SPACECRAFT
INTO THE PLASMA REGIME WHERE
PEAK HEATING BEGINS ON THE
VEHICLE WITH TEMPERATURES AROUND
THE SOYUZ REACHING ABOUT 20
ABOUT 2500DEGREES FAHRENHEIT
CREATING A PLASMA TRAIL BEHIND
THE SPACECRAFT FOR THE HEAT
SHIELD IN THE DIRECTION OF
TRAVEL REPEALING THAT HEAT AND
ALLOWING A SAFE ENTRY INTO THE
LOWER REGIONS TOWARD THE LANDING
SITE IN KAZAKHSTAN.
ONCE THE VEHICLE EXITS THE
PLASMA REGIME, THE CREW WILL
FEEL MAXIMUM D LOAD ON THE
BODIES ABOUT FOUR TO FIVE G'S AT
ALTITUDE OF 22MILES ABOVE THE
EARTH AND WILL OCCUR AFTER 6:00
A.M. CENTRAL TIME AND FOLLOWED
AT 6:03:13A.M. CENTRAL TIME BY
A COMMAND TO OPEN UP THE
PARACHUTE THAT WILL BE THE FINAL
MILESTONE ON THE ROUTE HOME FOR
THE CREW ONBOARD THE SOYUZ
MS-23.
LANDING AT THE SITE THE TYPICAL
SITE JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF
THE REMOTE TOWN IN KAZAKHSTAN
SCHEDULED AT 6:17:33A.M.
CENTRAL TIME.
7:17:33A.M. EASTERN TIME.
WHICH WILL BE 5:17P.M. AT THE
LANDING SITE OF KAZAKHSTAN JUST
ABOUT 1:53 BEFORE SUNSET.
DURING THIS MARATHON MISSION FOR
RUBIO, PROKOPYEV AND PETELIN,
AGAIN, THEY SPENT 371 DAYS IN
SPACE AND ABOARD THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
THEY COMPLETED 5936 ORBITS OF
THE EARTH.
A MISSION THAT WILL HAVE SPANNED
157,412,306 STATUTE MILES AT THE
TIME OF TOUCHDOWN, ROUGHLY
EQUIVALENT OF 328 ROUND TRIPS TO
THE MOON AND BACK.
SERGEY PROKOPYEV IN THE SECOND
FLIGHT INTO SPACE WILL HAVE
LOGGED A TOTAL OF 568 DAYS IN
SPACE, 12th ON THE ALL TIME
LIST FOR MOST DAYS BY A HUMAN
BEING IN SPACE.
OF COURSE FOR PETELIN AND RUBIO,
THE FIRST FLIGHT AND COME HOME
WITH 371 DAYS, THIS WILL BE THE
THIRD LONGEST SPACEFLIGHT IN
HUMAN HISTORY BEHIND VALERIE'S
438 DAYS IN SPACE ON THE MERE
SPACE STATION AND THEN RIGHT
BEHIND HIM, RUSSIAN COSMONAUT,
SERGEY WHO SPENT 3880 DAYS IN
SPACE ON A PARTICULAR MISSION.
>> COPY.
>> MEANWHILE, IN KAZAKHSTAN, THE
RUSSIAN AND NASA LANDING TEAM
HAS ARRIVED BY HELICOPTER AFTER
A TWO-HOUR FLIGHT FROM THE
CITY.
THEY HAVE ARRIVED WHERE THEIR
HELICOPTERS ARE BEING REFUELED
THEY WILL TAKE OFF AROUND THE
TIME OF THE DEORBIT BURN FOR
ANOTHER 35 MINUTE JAUNT TO THE
LANDING SITE ITSELF WHICH IS
ABOUT 90MILES TO THE SOUTHEAST
ITSELF.
THE LANDING TEAM PART OF THE
SEARCH AND RECOVERY FORCES WILL
THEN INCLUDE A VARIETY OF
HELICOPTERS AS WELL AS
FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT, A LARGE
AIRCRAFT THAT WILL BE USED AS
FLYING RELAY STATION FOR VOICE
AND DATA FROM THE SOYUZ
SPACECRAFT THAT DATA AND THE
VOICE TO BE RELAYED TO THE
RUSSIAN FLIGHT CONTROLLERS OF
THE RUSSIAN MISSION CONTROL
CENTER OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW.
ONCE THEY ARRIVE AT THE VICINITY
OF THE LANDING SITE, THEY WILL
FLY A CIRCULAR RACETRACK PATTERN
AROUND THE LANDING ZONE ITSELF
WAITING FOR THE SOYUZ TO DESCEND
UNDER THE ORANGE AND WHITE
PARACHUTE FOR A TOUCHDOWN WHICH
AGAIN IS SCHEDULED AT 6:10 A.M.
CENTRAL TIME.
7:17A.M. EASTERN TIME.
WE ARE NOW JUST 13 MINUTES AWAY
FROM THE UNDOCKING COMMAND THAT
WILL BEGIN THE PROCESS OF
OPENING UP THE HOOKS, HOLDING
THE SOYUZ SPACECRAFT TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'S
PRICHAL MODULE.
DURING THE FINAL PRESS
CONFERENCE A FEW DAYS AGO FRANK
RUBIO REFLECTED BACK ON THE TIME
ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION AND EXTENDED THE STAY ON
THE SPACE STATION BY SIX MONTHS
FROM THE ORIGINAL SIX MONTH
DURATION.
LET'S LISTEN TO WHAT RUBIO SAID
DURING THAT NEWS CONFERENCE.
>> THIS IS MY FIRST MISSION
WHICH IS INCREDIBLE THE FACT IT
HAPPENED TO LAST THIS LONG AND
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT HAS BEEN A
MIXED EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER
TO A CERTAIN DEGREE BECAUSE,
PERSONALLY, IT WAS INCREDIBLE
CALL LEMMING AND IT WAS
DIFFICULT PROFESSIONALLY IT WAS
INCREDIBLY REWARDING AND A HUGE
HONOR AND YOU KNOW, IT IS
PRIVILEGE TO REPRESENT OUR
OFFICE AND OUR TEAM THIS WAY.
BUT OVERALL, I THINK, ONE THING
THAT I TRY TO DO AND HOPEFULLY
HAVE ACHIEVED I HAVE NOT DONE IT
PERFECTLY IS TO STAY POSITIVE
AND STAY STEADY THROUGHOUT THE
MISSION AND DESPITE THOUGH
INTERNAL UP AND DOWNS YOU TRAY
TO FOCUS ON THE JOB AND ON THE
MISSION AND REMAIN STEADY
BECAUSE ULTIMATELY EVERY DAY YOU
HAVE TO SHOW UP AND DO THE WORK
AND UP HERE, IN THIS VERY
UNFORGIVING ENVIRONMENT, WE HAVE
TO DO THINGS RIGHT AND AGAIN WE
VERY INCREDIBLE GROUND TEAM THAT
BACKS US UP YOU TRY TO BRING THE
A GAME BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE
MISSION REQUIRES.
>> RUBIO TALKING ABOUT HIS EX
TENDED STAY ON THE STATION THAN
WAS THE VIEW LAST
DECEMBER14th WHEN THE
ORIGINAL SOYUZ THAT RUBIO AND
PROKOPYEV AND PETELIN LAUNCH ON
THE SOYUZ MS22 SPACECRAFT SPRUNG
A LEAK OF THE COOL APT SYSTEM.
THE COOL ANT WAS DEPLETED AND
THAT FORCED THE RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS AND ENGINEERS TO
PREPARE A REPLACEMENT SOYUZ THE
SOYUZ MS-23 THAT WAS LAUNCHED
UNPILOTED BACK IN FEBRUARY AS A
REPLACEMENT FOR THIS VEHICLE.
THE DAMAGED SOYUZ MS22 WAS
UNDOCKED AND DEORBITED UNPILOTED
FOR A LANDING BACK IN KAZAKHSTAN
WHERE IT WAS RECOVERED BY
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS.
>> GO AHEAD.
ARE YOU READY FOR UNDOCK?
WHAT IS THE PRESSURE AND THE
TEMPERATURE IN THE DESCENT
MODULE?
>> SO WITH THE NEW SOYUZ, THE
MS-23 ALL PREPPED READY FOR
UNDOCKING WITH A CREW ONBOARD,
AGAIN, SERGEY PROKOPYEV, THE
SOYUZ COMMANDER IS IN THE CENTER
SEAT OF THE TEE CREPT MODULE
FLYING TO HIS LEFT BY DMITRI
PETELIN TO HIS RIGHT BY FRANK
RUBIO JUST NINE AND A HALF
MINUTES NO I UNTIL THE UNDOCKING
COME MAN IS SHORED THEN 10.5
MINUTES UNTIL PHYSICAL
SEPARATION.
MEANWHILE THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION IS CURRENTLY
FLYING OVER INDIA AT 260 STATUTE
MILES MOVING FROM SOUTH WREST TO
NORTHEAST IN ORBIT INCLINED
51.6DEGREES TO EITHER SIDE OF
THE EQUATOR.
ABOUT 45 MINUTES AGO, CHRIS
DOBBINS HERE IN THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM, WHO IS
STANDING IN YOUR FIELD OF VIEW
AT THE LOWER RIGHT-HAND CORNER
OF THE SCREEN IS FLIGHT DIRECTOR
NICOLE McELROY AND THE TOP OF
THE SCREEN IS ASTRONAUT AKI
HOSHIDE, A VOTE RAN OF THE SOYUZ
FLIGHTING TO THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
DOBBINS TOOK A POLL OF THE
FLIGHT CONTROLLERS A SHORT TIME
AGO AND EVERYTHING WAS
READINESS.
HE RECEIVED A GO ACROSS THE
BOARD FOR THE UNDOCKING OF THE
SOYUZ MS-23 THAT WILL BEGIN THE
TRIP HOME FOR RUBIO, PROKOPYEV
AND PETELIN.
NOW SEVEN AND A HALF MINUTES
UNTIL HE UNDOCKING COMMANDS
ISSUED THE RUSSIAN CONTROL
CENTER IN KOROLYOV WILL GIVE THE
FINAL GO A MINUTE BEFORE THE
UNDOCKING COMMAND IS SENT OVER
THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS, THE
CREW ONBOARD THE SOYUZ CONDUCTED
LEAK CHECKS OF THE DOCKING
INTERFACE BETWEEN THE SOYUZ AND
THE PRICHAL MODULE.
THEY ALSO CONDUCTED THE LEAK
CHECKS OF EACH OF THE LAUNCH AND
IN TRY SUITS EVERYTHING WAS
CHECKED OUT IN GOOD SHAPE.
COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN CHECKED
OUT.
AGAIN, THE SEARCH AND RECOVERY
TEAMS THE NASA AND RUSSIAN
LANDING TEAM THEY REASON THE
TOWN AND BEING REFUELED AND
READY TO TAKE OFF FOR THE
LANDING SITE ITSELF AT THE TIME
OF THE DEORBIT BURN WHICH IS
ABOUT 2:45 FROM NOW.
BUT FIRST THING IS FIRST AND
THAT I WILL BE THE UNDOCKING OF
THE SOYUZ AT THE DEPARTURE OF
FRANK RUBIO, SERGEY PROKOPYEV
AND DMITRI PETELIN.
DURING THE TIME THAT THEY SPENT
ON ORBIT OF MORE THAN A YEAR IN
SPACE, THIS, THIS DEPARTING CREW
SAW ARRIVAL OF 15 VISITING
VEHICLES AND THE DEPARTURE OF
INVITING VEHICLES AND THEIR
SPACECRAFT MOMENTS FROM NOW WILL
BE THE 15th VEHICLE TO
DEPART THE STATION DURING
EXPEDITION 69 DURING THE TIME ON
ORBIT.
NO I FIVE MINUTES WAY FROM THE
ISSUANCE OF THE UNDOCKING
COMMAND TO OPEN THE HOOKS HOLING
SOYUZ TO THE PRICHAL MODULE.
AGAIN, THAT WILL TAKE ABOUT 90
SECONDS TO COMPLETE.
THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY
PHYSICAL SEPARATION SCHEDULED AT
2:54:30A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
3:54:30 EASTERN TIME.
NOW AS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION FLIES OVER SOUTHWESTERN
CHINA.
A VIEW OF SOYUZ MS-23 POISED TO
DEPART THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION JUST ABOUT FIVE AND A
HALF MACHINES FROM NOW.
JUST AND A HALF FIVE MINUTES
FROM NOW.
>> OK.
A GOOD VIEW OF THE THREE
SECTIONED SOYUZ SPACECRAFT THE
VERY TOP OF THE SCREEN IS
INSTRUMENTATION WITH THE SOLAR
ARRAYS DEPLOYED.
THE CENTER SECTION IS WHERE THE
CREW IS STRAP HOOD THE SEATS.
THAT IS THE TEE CREPT MODULE.
THE COMPONENT THAT SURE VIVES TO
BRING THE CREW HOME AND AT THE
VERY TOP OF THE SOYUZ MATED
STILL FOR ANOTHER COUPLE OF
MINUTES THE PRICHAL MODULE, THAT
IS THE ORBITAL MODULE.
ONCE THE PHYSICAL SEPARATION
OCCURS, THE THRUSTERS ON THE SEE
SOYUZ WILL FIRE IN TWO SEPARATE
SEPARATION BURNS TO OPEN A
SEPARATION RATE FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TO
ULTIMATE IS STANCE FROM ABOUT
90MILES FROM THE STATION ARE
THE DEORBIT BURN LATER THIS
MORNING.
TWO MILLION OF MINUTES NOW UNTIL
THE UNDOCKING FOR THE LONG
JOURNEY FOR FRANK RUBIO, SERGEY
PROKOPYEV AND DMITRI PETELIN
ABOUT TO ENTER THE TIME LAP.
NOW 90 SECONDS.
THIS IS THE VIEW OF THE EXTERNAL
CAMERA ON THE SOYUZ MS-23.
YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE DOCKING
TARGET ON THE PRICHAL MODULE.
PAGE 42.
>> 15 SECONDS AWAY FROM THE
UNDOCKING COMMAND.
>> MOSCOW.
>> THE UNDOCKING COMMAND HAS
BEEN ISSUED.
THE SOYUZ HOOKS ARE DRIVING.
AGAIN IT WILL TAKE A LITTLE LESS
THAN 90 SECONDS TO COMPLETE
RESULTING IN PHYSICAL SEPARATION
OF THE SOYUZ FROM THE PRICHAL
MODULE.
JUST ABOUT 30 SECONDS UNTIL
PHYSICAL SEPARATION.
UNDOCKING CONFIRMED.
SEPARATION CONFIRMED AT
2:54A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
3:54A.M. EASTERN TIME AS THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLEW
OVER SOUTHEASTERN MONGOLIA.
FRANK RUBIO, SERGEY PROKOPYEV
AND DMITRI PETELIN DEPARTED THE
COMPLEX THAT HAS BEEN THEIR HOME
FOR OVER A YEAR.
NEXT UP IN TWO AND A HALF
MINUTES THE FIRST SEPARATION
BURN TO IN CRASS THE OPENING
RATE BETWEEN THE SOYUZ AND THE
STATION THAT WILL BE
EIGHT-SECOND BURN OF THE SOYUZ
ENGINES WITH OPENING RATE OF
ABOUT .53METERS PER SECOND.
[INAUDIBLE]
INDICATOR IS NO LONGER
ILLUMINATED.
>> THE FIRST SMOOTH CLEAN
SEPARATION.
A GREAT VIEW AS IT FLIES OVER
MON FOAL WHY ONBOARD FRANK
RUBIO, SERGEY PROKOPYEV AND
DMITRI PETELIN WRAPPING UP THE
THIRD LONGEST SPACEFLIGHT IN
HUMAN HISTORY.
WE ARE TEN SECONDS A WAY OF THE
FIRST OF THE TWO SEPARATION
BURNS FOR SOYUZ.
COPY.
EIGHT SECONDS THEN A GOOD
SEPARATION.
ONE BURN REPORTED.
RUSSIAN FLIGHT CONTROLLERS
WATCHING THE SOYUZ DID HE PART
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
NOW ON A ROLL PROGRAM TO ORIENT
ITSELF FOR THE SECOND SEPARATION
BURN THAT IS SCHEDULED AT
2:58:50 CENTRAL TIME.
>> CONFIRMED.
>> THE SECOND SEPARATION BURN
COMING UP WILL BE A BIT LONGER
15 SECONDS IN DURATION.
1.62 METER PER SECOND BURN TO
INCREASE THAT OPENING RATE.
>> 15 SECONDS.
>> FIRING CONFIRMED.
FIVE SECONDS.
TEN SECONDS.
15 SECONDS.
THE SECOND SEPARATION BURN HAS
INITIATED.
AND IS COMPLETE AFTER 15 SECONDS
TWO GOOD SEPARATION BURN
INTERESTS THE SOYUZ AS IT BEGINS
TO ACCELERATE AWAY ARE THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
UNDOCKING OCCURRING ON TIME AT
2:54:30A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
3:54:30A.M. EASTERN TIME AS THE
SOYUZ AND THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION FLEW 260MILES
OVER MONGOLIA.
>> OK.
STANDBY.
COPY THIS VIEW NOW FROM THE
SOYUZ CROSS HAIRED ENGINEERING
CAMERA AS IT BEGINS TO
QUARTERBACKING IN THE DEPARTURE
AWAY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
OKAY.
OK.
GO AHEAD.
OK.
I WILL TRY.
INDICATOR IS ILLUMINATED.
DYNAMIC MODE.
COPY.
>> THIS VIEW OF THE CONTROL
PANEL IN THE SOYUZ WITH THE
EXTERNAL CAMERA VIEW THAT IS THE
SAME VIEW THAT THE CREW ONBOARD
SERGEY HAS SEEN SERGEY PROKOPYEV
IN THE CENTER SEAT BY DMITRI
PETELIN AND TO HIS RIGHT BY
NASA'S FRANK RUBIO.
DEACTIVATE THE LIGHTS WORKING.
WORKING.
LYING IS OFF.
OFF.
NOW DOCKING ETERNAL TRANSFER
STATION.
OFF.
NOT ILLUMINATED AND G16 NOT
ILLUMINATED.
>> OK.
SEND THE COMMAND.
>> AS YOU CAN HEAR THE RUSSIAN
FLIGHT CONTROLLERS INFORMING THE
CREW ONBOARD THE SOYUZ UNDER THE
CALL SIGN ATLI IS SERGEY'S CALL
SIGN NAMED AFTER THE MOUNTAINOUS
REGION IN RUSSIA LOCATED IN
SOUTHERN SIBERIA.
THOSE COMMANDS ARE UPDATING
PERIMETERS FOR THE UPCOMING
DEORBIT BURN THAT WILL TAKE
PLACE JUST A FEW HOURS FROM NOW
THAT THE DEORBIT BURN SCHEDULED
AT 5:28 OR 5:24:09.
5:24:09A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
6:24:09 EASTERN TIME.
>> COPY.
>> PAGE 48.
AND NOW YOU MAY PREPARE TO WORK
FOR PAGE 48.
YOU MAY REST FOR A FEW SHORT
MOMENTS.
>> AT THIS POINT, THE CREW WILL
HAVE A BIT OF FREE TIME AS THEY
PREPARE FOR THE DEORBIT BURN IN
THE ULTIMATE DECENT BACK TO THE
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE.
>> HOW IS IT GOING?
>> WELL, HE IS NOT THE FIRST
TIME.
>> A DAD VIEW OF THE DEPARTING
SOYUZ.
SERGEY PROKOPYEV REPORTING THAT
THE CREW IS FEELING WELL.
EVERYTHING IN GUIDE SHAPE
ONBOARD THE MS-23.
THIS SPACECRAFT WAS LAUNCHED
BACK IN FEBRUARY UNPILOTED MADE
AN AUTOMATED DOCKING TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS
THE REPLACEMENT FOR THE DAMAGED
SOYUZ MS22 SPACECRAFT THAT
INCURRED A COOL APT LEAK BACK IN
DES DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR
RENDERING IT UNUSABLE FOR THE
CREW TO RETURN TO EARTH IN.
>> CAN YOU SEE ME IN THE WINDOW
IN.
>> NO, IT IS IN THE SHADE.
>> AS THE SOYUZ UNDOCKED FROM
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE IT IS A.
THE NASA AND RUSSIAN LANDING
TEAM EMBEDDED WITH THE SEARCH
AND RECOVERY FORCES ARE TAKING A
BREATHER AT THE AIRPORT WHICH IS
THE INTERMEDIARY STAGING SITE.
THE NASA RUSSIAN LANDING TEAM
FLEW BY HELICOPTERS COUPLE OF
HOURS AGO.
THOSE HELICOPTERS HAVE BEEN
REFUELED AND WILL TAKE OFF IN
SEQUENTIAL FASHION FOR THE
LANDING SITE TO RECOVER RUBIO,
PROKOPYEV AND PETELIN.
THEY WILL BE WHEELED UP AROUND
THE TIME OF THE DEORBIT BURN
WHICH AGAIN IS SCHEDULED AT
5:24:09A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
6:24:00A.M. EASTERN TIME.
>> YOU ARE LOOKING AT A LIVE
VIEW FROM THE BALCONY CAMERA IN
KOROLYOV OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW.
RUSSIAN FLIGHT CONTROLS ARE
CAREFULLY MONITORING ALL THE
SOYUZ SYSTEMS AND TALKING TO
SOYUZ COMMANDER SERGEY PROKOPYEV
ABOARD THE SOYUZ MS-23 AS IT
CONTINUES ITS DEPARTURE AWAY
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION FOLLOWING ITS UNDOCKING
A SHORT TIME AGO.
AT 5:24A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
6:24:00A.M. EASTERN TIME.
THE UNDOCKING THAT OCCURRED A
SHORT TIME AGO, EVERYTHING WENT
BUY THE PK.
THE SEPARATION OF THE SOYUZ FROM
THE PRICHAL MODULE OCCURRED OVER
MONGOLIA.
AGAIN THAT OCCURRED AT 2:54A.M.
CENTRAL TIE.
3:54A.M. EASTERN TIME THAT WAS
FOLLOW A FEW MINUTES LATER
SEPARATION BURNS ARE THE SOYUZ
THRUSTERS TO INCREASE THE
OPENING RATE BETWEEN THE SOYUZ
AND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION THAT WILL CULMINATE IN A
DISTANCE OF ABOUT 38-KILOMETERS
AWAY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION FOR THE DEORBIT
BURN THAT IS SCHEDULED AT
5:24:09A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
6:24 AND 09:00A.M. EASTERN
TIME.
THE DEORBIT BURN THAT IS
UPCOMING TO BEGIN THE TRIP BACK
HOME IN ERNEST FOR RUBIO,
PROKOPYEV AND PETELIN THE
DEORBIT BURN WILL BE 04:39 IN
DURATION SLOWING THE SOYUZ DOWN
BY 128-METER PER SECOND ALLOWING
TO IT DROP OUT OF ORBIT FOR THE
DECENT BACK INTO THE EARTH'S
ATMOSPHERE.
27 MINUTES AFTER THE DEORBIT
BURN.
THEY WILL FIRE TO ENABLE THE
THREE SECTIONS OF THE SOYUZ TO
SEPARATE FROM ONE ANOTHER THE
MODULE SEPARATIONS SCHEDULED AT
5:51:58A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
6:5:13:58 EASTERN TIME.
THE ONLY PORTION OF THE SOYUZ
THAT SURVIVES WITH THE CREW
ONBOARD IS THE DECENT MODULE THE
CENTER SECTION THE DIRECTION OF
TRAVEL WILL HAVE THE HEAT SHIELD
APPOINTED IN THE DIRECTION OF
TRAVEL TO THE LANDING SITE TO
REPEAL HEAT THAT WILL BUILD UP
AROUND THE SOYUZ OF 2500
FAHRENHEIT DURING PEAK HEATING
THE SOYUZ WILL HIT THE TOP OF
THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE A POINT
CALLED ENTRY INTERFACE THEN
ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 100 KILOMETERS
OR 62MILES IN ALTITUDE AT
5:54:51.
6:51:51 EASTERN TIME.
TEMPERATURES AROUND THE
SPACECRAFT AGAIN WILL BUILD AT
THAT POINT AND THEY WILL ENTER
IN A REGIME OF PLASMA THAT WILL
BE GENERATED AROUND THE
SPACECRAFT OR IONIZATION IF YOU
WILL THAT SHOULD PREVENT FROM
BEING CONDUCTED BETWEEN THE
SOYUZ AND FLIGHT CONTROLLERS IN
KOROLYOV OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW.
THAT PLASMA REGIME WILL LAST FOR
ABOUT FIVE MINUTES OR SO AND
THEY WILL EMERGE FROM THE PLASMA
REGIME AND HAVE MAXIMUM D LOADS
BUILDING UP ON THE BODIES OF 4
TO 5G'S DURING THE DECENT INTO
AND THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE.
THE COMMAND TO OPEN UP THE
CHUTES WILL OCCUR AT ALTITUDE OF
6.7-MILES AT 6:03:13A.M.
CENTRAL TIME.
7:03:13A.M. EASTERN TIME.
THIS PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT
SEQUENCE THAT WELL YOU WILL BE
SEEING LATER ON THIS MORNING IS
HE ASKED TRIGGERED BAY PRESSURE
SENSOR AT ALTITUDE OF 41,000
FEET.
AT THIS POINT, THE MAIN
PARACHUTE COVER IS JETTISONED BY
PYRO SPRINGS PULLING OUT TWO
EXTRACTION SUITS WHICH IN TURN
PILLS OUT THE MAIN CHUTE.
THIS TEAKS ABOUT 20 SECONDS FOR
ALL OF THIS TO HAPPEN.
THEN, IN ALTITUDE OF
21,000FEET, PRESSURE SENSOR
STARTS A TIMER THAT TRIGGERS
MOST OF THE REMAINING EVENTS
FROM LANDING SEQUENCE THEN
ALTITUDE OF 18,000FEET THE
COMMANDS WILL BE ISSUED TO
JETTISON THE HEAT SHIELD THREE
MINUTES THE PARACHUTES ARE
DEPLOYED THAT COMMAND ALSO IN
HEN ABOUT ITS THE ENTRY
THRUSTERS THEN OPENS VALVING TO
PREVENT ALL THE FUEL FOR THE IN
TRY THRUSTERS AND THE OXYGEN OF
THE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM TANK.
THE WHITE THAT YOU HAVE SEEN ON
OCCASION DURING ENTRY OF THE
SOYUZ VEHICLE FOR LANDING AND
WHAT WE HOPE WE'LL SEE ASSUMING
WE HAVE TELEVISION FROM THE LAND
OFFING SITE AT THAT TIME, THAT,
THAT WHITE VAPOR IS COME PI
NATION OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AND
THE OXYGEN VENTING TO THE AIR
THE PURPOSE IS TO SAVE THE
VEHICLE FOR LANDING SO THE
SEARCH AND RECOVERY FORCES DON'T
ENCOUNTER ANY HAZARDOUS GASES TO
REMAN IN THOUGH TANKS WHEN THEY
APPROACH THE VEHICLE FOLLOWING
TOUCHDOWN THUS FACILITATING THE
ABILITY TO EX TRACK THE CREW THE
SPACE STATION IN THE SHORTEST
TIME POSEABLE.
POSSIBLE.
A SO TO RECAP THE UNDOCK OF THE
SOYUZ MS OCCURRED ON-TIME AT
2:54:30.
3:54A.M. EASTERN TIME AS THE
SOYUZ AND THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION FLEW 260MILES
OVER MONGOLIA OF THE EVENTS
LEADING UP TO UNDOCKING WERE
EXECUTED IN FLAWLESS FASHION ASS
WITH A THE UNDOCKING ITSELF
FOLLOWED BY TWO SEPARATION BURNS
FROM THE SOYUZ ENGINES TO
ACCELERATE DEPARTURE RATE AWAY
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
FRANK RUBIO, SERGEY PROKOPYEV,
DMITRI PETELIN BID FAREWELL TO
THE FACILITY THAT HAS BEEN THEIR
HOME FOR OVER A YEAR.
THEY ARE HEADED FOR A LANDING IN
SOUTH CENTRAL KAZAKHSTAN AT
6:17:00A.M. CENTRAL TIME.
7:17A.M. EASTERN TIME WHICH
WILL BE 5:17P.M. AT THE LANDING
SITE ABOUT 90-MILE TO THE
SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF
KAZAKHSTAN SO WE'LL BE BACK IN A
COUPLE OF HOURS WITH THE DEORBIT
BURN AND LANDING COVERAGE FOR
YOU STARTING AT 5:00 A.M.
CENTRAL.
6:00 A.M. EASTERN TIME.
IT WILL BE ON THE AIR THROUGH
THE TIME THE CREW HAS EXTRACTED
FROM THE SOYUZ VEHICLE AND
BROUGHT IN TO THE MEDICAL TENT
NEAR PI.
WE'LL HAVE MORE DETAILS THAT
RECOVERY OPERATION WHEN WE
RETURN AT 5:00 A.M.
6:00 A.M. EASTERN TIME FOR THE
DEORBIT BURN AND LANDING
COVERAGE FOR FRANK RUBIO, SERGEY
PROKOPYEV AND DMITRI PETELIN.
MEANTIME THIS IS MISSION CONTROL